I ultimately don't care what other countries think, because in the end it's about Americans to me, but it's astounding that this presidency has squandered the goodwill borne of 400,000 deaths in World War II, 100,000 more in the Cold War and untold capital and effort of an entire society over 60 years and flushed it down the toilet in a frat boy retarded, "I'm going to crash my daddy's Cadillac" stupor.

If not the worst president ever, he's definitely the biggest failure.

Who would have ever thought a man who failed as a businessman and is where he is because of his family name would be a bad president. Shockerizing!

I ultimately don't care what other countries think, because in the end it's about Americans to me, but it's astounding that this presidency has squandered the goodwill borne of 400,000 deaths in World War II, 100,000 more in the Cold War and untold capital and effort of an entire society over 60 years and flushed it down the toilet in a frat boy retarded, "I'm going to crash my daddy's Cadillac" stupor.

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I think it is a little far fetched to lay anti-American sentiment entirely at Bush's feet. It's been building for many years, mostly as a result of bitterness from our Cold War playgrounds and jealousy on the part of Europeans.

Once the Berlin Wall came down, the clock started ticking on Europe's latent hatreds. And places like Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia are just paying dividends on our 50 years of projecting hegemony into their spheres of influence.

Bush has certainly made things worse rather than in any way attempting to make them better. But using him as a universal bogeyman for all that is wrong with America's image in the world is kind of short sighted, and frankly it's the kind of one dimensional thinking that I usually expect out of our resident Eurotrash.

The 9/11 sympathy bump would have evaporated either way. There was also a global outpouring of celebrations and "You got what you deserved" from small and vocal segments of the international community. Anti-Americanism existed in those places, as well as in other 'friendly' nations long before anyone had ever heard of our butter-head-in-chief. It's all been just a matter of degrees under Bush, much of it a result of his non existing diplomatic senses, and retarded foreign policy mistakes. And some of it is certainly due to a global case of Bush Derangement Syndrome.

The approval rating of a president at the start of a war or after a big disaster is an abberation and it never lasts for long. It doesnt matter the president. This is the way the people come to together and react. The only fools are the ones that think this good feeling and high ratings will last forever. Short bus

Of course anti-americanism existed before Bush. But he is still largely to blame for the fact that America is disdained across the world now whereas up to Iraq it enjoyed some of the highest approval ratings from foreigners of any time in history.

But it is the single biggest reason why so many Americans think this country is headed in the wrong direction. I think it's far fetched to understate the failure of this presidency. Though it has certainly brought about a lot of change, his foreign and domestic policy have been arrogant and ineffective. In 2000, he campaigned as a humble man who would have humble policies and it's been anything but that.

This is a failed man. The thing that gets me is this: so you have that cousin who has this father who's wealthy or influential. He gets things in life because of this, but he's not a capable person so he flubs it all up. These outcomes are not unexpected. And to choose him twice? I can't really say too much about voting for him once, but a thinking person voting for him twice is embarrassing.

But it is the single biggest reason why so many Americans think this country is headed in the wrong direction. I think it's far fetched to understate the failure of this presidency. Though it has certainly brought about a lot of change, his foreign and domestic policy have been arrogant and ineffective. In 2000, he campaigned as a humble man who would have humble policies and it's been anything but that.

This is a failed man. The thing that gets me is this: so you have that cousin who has this father who's wealthy or influential. He gets things in life because of this, but he's not a capable person so he flubs it all up. These outcomes are not unexpected. And to choose him twice? I can't really say too much about voting for him once, but a thinking person voting for him twice is embarrassing.

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I don't know Calladon, I think it will take many years to sift through the noise and distortions generated day in and day out by both sides of the Bush debate. There is no question that his has been an ineffective administration. But the obsessively passionate hatred being generated towards the man doesn't exactly radiate clear thinking. I just want his presidency to be over, one way or the other, so that we can have some opportunity to return to rational public dialogue.

I suppose you're right. But I think that hysteria has been generated by the astounding wrongness of this man. A man doesn't become as incapable as he is overnight. He was always this way, and you are merely late to the party.

I'm a big believer in balance in the universe. You find it in science and I think you also find it in human relationships. I think the extremeness of Bush has been answered equally by those that oppose him. He is a failure. He has always been a failure. It makes me sad that it's taken the majority of Americans so long to realize it.